The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

VOreSb OF IlSn HOOhe IClIC'Sh ~ eAAA OSSNoiNAsNi
ktch Of penkniyes.
AN Arkansas man made a bullet out of
| he of plug tobacco and shot it through the
| y of wild cat. The animal died.
! liz first baby born in South Sioux City,
! N was given a serenade by the band and
! plpted with a corner lot in that promising
| qsrs at the leading New York hotels fire.
| quey find circular1etters in the boxes Offering
| TO fish Trustworthy guides if they desired to
see Cbam by gaslight. The price is $40 and
expeS.
| ONA the most eccentric suicides of recent
occurIte was that of Steuben, Me-, man
namedLley who went to the river, drove a
STAKE d himself to it with rope and
drowne4nlself.
REPd comes from Dresden, Saxony, of a
steam orrbus which it is intended to run reg
ulary ovdhe country roads. 1t is managed
by two maand carries forty-six passengers,
with consid able freight
A NEskrEcHANr of ready wit, who has
had an Eurdln education, inscribes his tea
chests "Tu des'' which is the second person
singular OF t%erb Meo d0ce0, to teach, and
when translah becomes Thou tea chest"
ELLIcoTT OK, Nd, has confirmed smoker
who is only hrs old and still attended by a
nurse. He smed cigar recently for an hour
or more and sized no signs of sickness. The
little fellow has ntracted the habit from his
older brother.
In Rhode lsAd factory town certain en-
ployer recently Id out to / is employees on Sat
urday night S10A new bills that had been St
cretly marked. h the following Monday 500
or these marked lis were deposited in the bank
by the saloonkeehs of the town,
On the day, in b. that King Arthur won
great victory ove3he Saxons, Devil, or David,
afterwards Archbh bop of St. David's, ordered
the Welsh soldierep place leek in their caps.
1t is to this circuntance that the leek's selec-
tlon as the emblenof Wales is ascribed.
SWARM OF BEEF looking for a place to light
settled upon spapf mules as they were draw
ing pillow near Nhtgomery, Ala. The mules
kicked and plung& and this excited the bees
who began using heir stings.so savagely that
soon the mules drobed dead. The driver saved
his life by running way, after vain effort to
drive the bees fromhe mules ~
A FEW years ago sgentleman Of Washington
bought an old trunlat an auction sale for 25c
1t was filled with rubish, and the buyer sent it
home intending to ave it cleaned out. This
was done few daN ago, and the trunk was
found to contain slid silver shield, which APP
pears TO have beeA on the coffin of George
Washington. The fate from the casl1et has
been missing ever SRce the attempt to steal the
remains in 1887
A LITTLE daughte of Mrs Rhodes, of Leroy,
ILL.,, fell into well Twelve feet deep and half full
of water. When The mother discovered IL e
child it was lying Unconscious on its tack on top
of the water She eailed her S-year-old daugl.-
ter, and takingner by the feet held her down
headforemost Until she could reach the baby,
and then puledboth out at the same time. TIE
baby was restoPd to consciousness and is now
doing as well ascould be expected
JOHN MARDEN a mechanic, of Phoenix, R. L.,
took home pie,e of beef the other day, and
his wife put it il the big dinner-pot to boil,
throwing a handful of rice in with it, A few
minutes later the pot Exploded with great
violence, in1uring John, wao was sitting near
steaming beef plump into his wife's lap. The
explosion is supposed to haveEesulted from the
gas generated by the rice, whish was found to
have been burned on the bottom of the pot.
A TIsHoMINGo a. T.) coRREsPsNpENT writes:
"A few miles south of the mountain is a station
on the railroad known as Seven Hundred
Ranch 1t has rather interesting history A
short time back number of the citizens of the
Nation, wealthy cattlemen, met here in tent
party, and the ante was 800 and 81 400 to draw
. cards For some time the game continued until
over $500, 900 had changed hands when it broke
up. Ever since this point has been known as
Seven Hundred Ranch"
A FEW WEEKS AGO, while the snow was stin on
the ground in Minnesota, Charles Moore, d
Chatfield, was loading his sled at the granary
which stands on higher ground than the house
when 1t got away from him and began to NOV
rapidly down the hill. He failed to stop it., AM
away it went toward the house, gathering spec,
at every foot. When it reached the house tn
sled was going like shell from a mortar, an
the heavy tongue was jammed clean through
the wall and into the sitting room, where Mrs
Moore was sewing. She was frightened out o
her wits, but was not injured. The side of tn
house, though, was badly wrecked.
IKE SEssUMs, who owns the grocery at Ses
sums Station near Starkville, Miss, has lost
good deal of stock during the spring by tn
depredations of burglars Last Monday nigh
he set a trap for the rascaIs by charging hj
double-barrelled gun heavily with buckshot
cooking it, and setting it in such position tha
the first man who attempted to open the doc
was bound TO be shot. Tuesday morning h
came down to the store as usual and. forget
ting all about the gun, unlocked the door an
opened it, Both barrels were discharged as
by clockwork, and the entire load entered hi
body. AT last accounts he was lingering betwee
life and death.
PENS at &C. the gross; two dozen for cent
Who would not learn to write? The figur
named is the price at which the cheapest Gel
man pens can be produced. The america
Register, of Paris describes, as among the il
tereSting industrial establishments of Berlin tn
steel pen mandatory Of Heintze & Blankert;
With the exception of one in France, it is tn
largest on the continent. and one or two in Ems
land are larger. The Berlin factory produce
monthly about $4,000 gross, equal to 1,O0O, 0C
gross per annum, or 144.000,000 pens. OF per
holders upward Of 100000 are turned out al
nually. The factory employs upward of 80
people, mostly women
In the village of Meyrin, in the canton G
Geneva Switzerland, some disused wells, it
said, have been Theoretically sealed and devote
to the novel purpose of serving as barometers t
the people In this arrangement an orifice c
about one inch in diameter is made in the cove
of the well, by means of which the internal al
is put in communication with the externa
When the air pressure Outsidesdiminshes on tn
approach of a storm the air in the well escape
and blows whistle in connection with tn
orilice, and in this simple way notice of a storm
approach is duly given to the inhabitants Blu
If, on the contrary, the pressure increases,
sound of a different and we'll understood cha,
acter is produced by the entry of the air int
the well, and the probability of fine weather
announced.
An Indian pupil Of the Hampton school sur
piled his teacher with this unique piece of nal
rative writing: zone day, bright day, and lii
tie bird happy and stood on a log and sang a
day long That bird doesn't know anythin
about cat. She thinks nobody is near to heI
But behind the near log one sly old cat is watch
ing. She want TO eat for supper, and she think
about stealing all the time The old cat cam
very slow, and by and by she go after the littl
bird, but she does not see him and sang alou
again. She sang Just like this: 4 ALWAYS try T.